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" There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. "
Robert Crumb
Heroic
Investigative
Journalists
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" Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. "
Robert Crumb
Like
More
Yes
" The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex. "
Robert Crumb
Passion
Sex
Sure
" The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out. "
Robert Crumb
Out
Stuff
Subconscious
" The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world. "
Robert Crumb
Cartoon
About
Little
" In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual. "
Robert Crumb
Saying
Through
Time
" Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. "
Robert Crumb
Life
Most
Contempt
" Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all. "
Robert Crumb
Tried
Them
Pens
" When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate. "
Robert Crumb
World
Up
Real
" I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. "
Robert Crumb
Most
Weird
Time
" The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that. "
Robert Crumb
Hold
Always
America
" Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it. "
Robert Crumb
Pictures
Special
Me
" I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface. "
Robert Crumb
Best
You
World
" I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that! "
Robert Crumb
Away
Entertainment
Me
" I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music. "
Robert Crumb
Connection
Curiosity
Look
" I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework. "
Robert Crumb
Enjoy
Homework
Drawing
" Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. "
Robert Crumb
Commitment
People
Yourself
" Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that. "
Robert Crumb
Leaders
Men
Violence
" I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. "
Robert Crumb
Becoming
Revenge
World
" I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy. "
Robert Crumb
Female
Had
Always
" If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money. "
Robert Crumb
Money
Game
Society
" I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly. "
Robert Crumb
Church
Saying
Started
" In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly all these good-looking women were interested in me. "
Robert Crumb
Street
Day
Fall
" I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people. "
Robert Crumb
Life
Drawing
Real Life
" I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality. "
Robert Crumb
Knowledge
Spiritual
Nature
" I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything. "
Robert Crumb
Negative
Everything
Person
" I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in. "
Robert Crumb
Drawing
Musicians
Music
" The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff. "
Robert Crumb
Stuff
Real
Bible
" You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology. "
Robert Crumb
Christian
Mythology
You
" When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive. "
Robert Crumb
I Am
Back
Angry
" The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first. "
Robert Crumb
Myself
Me
You